Ret paladin or just switch class ?

ok here is the thing i always been a holy paladin since BC and when dual came up i was holy/prot and everything worked great till MoP , those dailies are killing , dont get me wrong i dont mind doing the questing and stuff i kinda enjoy it , the thing is that as prot or holy my dmg is low even as prot i AOe pull and burn them but it takes time you know . so i had to try out Ret , with just blue heroics i felt like a wet noodle when hiting something damn it felt bad! but then i started buying some valor gear and some LFR and looks like its getting better , im pulling more dmg but here is my "problem" , Ret: do they really scale that big with gear ? and of course i dont see big numbers , i think i was used to see big numbers playing a dk , so what do you think ?. should i try to get more gear o just try another class that gives big numbers?
i know its seems dumb but its a playstyle i like , if i want to dps something i like to see big numbers and not having to wait for Wings CD to be able to see them.

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Stay paladin and get more gear to pull more dmg or try out another class that doesn't need a lot of gear upgrade to pull more dmg ? talking dailies wise.

If you keep going with that character, I'd definitely recommend getting a meta gem asap. 3% more crit damage and the added strength will get you closer to those big crits you want. Don't really think DK crits harder than ret, ret has some pretty big crits if you consider the huge amount of holy damage coming in right after.

The grass is always greener on the otherside of the fence. Any class you reroll is going to need some gear to decent dps. What sort of dps are you pulling as ret? Are you certain you have the right dps skill priority? Ret is my offspec at about 485ish and I roll through dailies with no issues. Averaging 60-70k dps in normal raid situations. Its not the top level dps but its more than sufficient to roll through dailies.

If the proportion of players playing DPS is too high, the obvious way to increase the amount of healers is by nerfing hybrid dps. Go a pure dps class and use that as your dps spec unless you don't have the time to invest in two 'mains'.

I've been Holy/Ret pally since WotLK and since MoP i've really enjoyed ret play style again and whilst at low gear levels its a little hard, now that I've geared up ret (my off spec) from 5.0 LFRs (+ a couple of pieces from 5.0 normals) it's far more enjoyable!
I can now gather up a good 5 or 6 mobs in the Court of Bones and dps them down (with seal on insight) in less than a minute. Even without the 100% crit buff I can gather up the same amount and dps them down in little time

Originally Posted by TEHPALLYTANK

Stick with ret, once you get a decent weapon you'll find it is okay.

Pretty much this, I went from 463 sword to the sha touched axe from sha of fear LFR and it improved my dps no end

What annoys me most about ret questing is inquisition. A glyph like the savage roar one feral druids have would be nice.

Just use inquisition more wisely in transitions between mobs, dont reapply inq when something's about to die, wait till you start on the next mob. I have a feral druid as well and don't find questing particularly worse on a paladin. If anything is better about feral its the run speed

Well, from what I had seen recently as a headline on the front page, 5.3 could be introducing triple-spec. So you could pick up Ret for your third spec in 5.3 if you want to wait that long. Also, if you can find people to do dailies with it makes them multiple times quicker to do.

Stay Holy/Prot and cut a deal with a friend or guildie. What I do is tag along with one of my dps friends and then we que for stuff together. I get dailies done and they get faster que times...win for everyone

Ret's dps is on the low end in raiding, but even holy priest does dailies reasonably quickly.

I'd urge you to reconsider the reason you play the game before you reconsider the class. If all you're doing in wow is dailies and hanging out, there are MUCH more fun games out there.

i didn't said i only care about dailies , i raid as holy and pvp as holy , but since holy and prot takes time on killing stuff , thats why im asking about Ret . and the reason i play the game is because i enjoy it and if you read the op again i said i dont hate dailies . thank you very much have a nice day

i didn't said i only care about dailies , i raid as holy and pvp as holy , but since holy and prot takes time on killing stuff , thats why im asking about Ret . and the reason i play the game is because i enjoy it and if you read the op again i said i dont hate dailies . thank you very much have a nice day

If you raid and PvP as holy, then I'd just pick Ret along with it. If it turns out to be inconvenient, so be it.

i didn't said i only care about dailies , i raid as holy and pvp as holy , but since holy and prot takes time on killing stuff , thats why im asking about Ret . and the reason i play the game is because i enjoy it and if you read the op again i said i dont hate dailies . thank you very much have a nice day

If you MS Holy then that's probably going to be the best spec to do dailies in, the DPS you can put out is quite surprising compared to the gear you'll have for ret (unless your raid group favours your ret set)

If you MS Holy then that's probably going to be the best spec to do dailies in, the DPS you can put out is quite surprising compared to the gear you'll have for ret (unless your raid group favours your ret set)

disagree, holy paladin dps is REALLY bad, unless you glyph for it and then its still pretty damn bad. You might be able to keep up with a 460 ret set or something single target, but even if you can do that, you have no aoe which will make some quests a nightmare